Intel Investors - The 0.25 Micron Process Parts May Arrive in a Few Months
Very high speed Mobile Pentium chips are getting closer to market. This could finally (Finally again!) be the real Tillamook chips based on the 0.25 micron process. 200 and 233 MHz devices for the notebook market!
This might boost the third quarter and kick-start the fourth quarter sales.
I also expect that the new 440LX chip set for Pentium II desktop/workstations will arrive before Labor Day. This will include the SDRAM support, AGP support and UltraDMA for high speed disk access.
So, Intel's pipeline of products in development will begin to kick into high gear in a few more months.
Intel ain't dead yet!
Paul
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June 27, 1997
Intel Readies Mobile Chips For
Late-Summer Launch
(06/27/97; 12:30 p.m. EDT)
By Jim Forbes, Windows Magazine
SANTA CLARA, Calif. -- Intel and a handful of its PC partners
have a late-summer surprise in store for notebook users: a
new generation of portable computers with desktop PC-like
features and 200-MHz and 233-MHz Intel Pentium MMX
processors, the fastest mobile P55C chips to date.
The new processors posted blazing performance in
preliminary tests by Windows Magazine. The 200-MHz-based
processors churned out 384 million instructions per second in
our Wintune 97 tests, and 233-MHz P55C test beds clocked
about 443 MIPS. The test platforms were not optimized for
performance, so retail versions that are fine-tuned could
deliver even faster performance.
The raw benchmark scores for these 200-MHz and 233-MHz
mobile chips were about 20 percent and 40 percent faster,
respectively, than top-of-the-line portables based on 166-MHz
P55C Pentium MMX processors. Even more significant, both
mobile chips equaled the performance of their desktop P55C
counterparts. Previous mobile chips have always lagged
slightly behind the desktop versions.
Faster processors are just part of the story. Equally important
to corporate users -- a primary target market for these
new-generation notebooks -- will be the emergence of
standard configurations with multigigabyte hard disks, 32
megabytes or more of EDO RAM , USB connectors,
high-performance video subsystems, integrated modems and
13.3- and 14-inch active matrix color screens.
In addition, industry sources reported that most major
notebook makers are expected to offer stock configurations
that will be offered with either Windows NT 4.0 or Win 95.
Fully configured systems are expected to hit the market in late
summer or early fall at about $5,000. The introduction of the
new 200-MHz and 233-MHz notebooks will drive down the
cost of older machines based on the 166-MHz P55C
processor. Some industry sources speculate that by year's
end, some notebook manufacturers may be selling $4,000
state-of-the-art machines for as little as $2,600.
Impressive as they are, 233-MHz notebooks are just the next
stop for Intel. The company will launch versions of its Pentium II
family for mobile computers early next year.
Intel declined to comment on this story or on reports of
forthcoming processors.
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